FRANCE: Impudence and Immunity

Last week Paris-Soir, smart eleven-year-old French daily which has
made great leaps in circulation in the past year, again showed its
mettle by accusing the Paris police and the Sûreté
Générale of wilfully bungling the Stavisky investigation
and then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the
murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The
Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story
Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston
Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector
Alfred C. Collins of Scotland...